ORGANIZED CRIME WITH TERRORISM

ECONOMIC CRIMES:
Refers to illegal acts committed by an individual or a group of individuals to obtain a
financial or professional advantage. In such crimes, the offenders principal motive is
economic gain and is not dependent upon the application or threat of physical force or
violence. Economic crimes are also referred as white collar crimes.
White collar crime was coined in 1939 during a speech given by Edwin Sutherland and
defined the term as crime committed by a person of respectability and high social
status in the course of his occupation.

COUNTERFEITING:
Means to imitate something counterfeit products are fake replicas of the real product.
Counterfeit products are often produced with the intent to take advantage of the
superior value of the imitated products. The word counterfeit frequently describes both
of the forgeries of currency and documents.
Criminal organizations who involved in the counterfeiting market are the following:
1. Chinese Triads
2. Yakuza
3.
SMUGGLING:
Is defined as international or illegal trade through unauthorized route. A seaport,
airport, land port which has not authorized by the government tfor the importation abd
exportation is an unauthorized route.
SMUGGLING Republic Act No. 1937 An Act to Revise and Codify the
Traffic and Customs Laws of the Philippines. Title 1 THE BUREAU OF
CUSTOMS
Impact of Smuggling in the Philippines
The extent and impact of smuggling in the Philippines that Smuggling is a
serious problem that hurts the economy in many ways. It deprives government
revenues from uncollected taxes and customs duties.

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TOP SMUGGLED GOODS:

1. HUMANS
These people wanting to cross over to other countries get helped by
smugglers who got paid
2. ARMS AND WEAPONS
Arms and weapon smuggling is the fodder for all kinds of terrorism.
3. DRUGS
Smuggling of drugs is a well known fact. Mules, as in people who carry
the drugs in their intestinal tract, can carry up to five pounds of drugs like
cocaine, heroin, ecstasy or methamphetamine in latex pouches covered in
industrial sealants and aluminum foil in their bodies.
4. EXOTIC ANIMALS
These exotic animals are most of the times rare and this illegal trade is
affecting the biodiversity of various systems. Most of the animals die in
transits. Scientist believe that the SARS Virus spread due to animal
trafficking when the human came in contact with the Chinese civets.
5. MINERALS
Smuggling of minerals like gold, chromite, coal and iron and precious
stones like lapis lazuli and emerald in Afghanistan constitute 20-25% of its
foreign trade.
In the Philippines the Chinese nationals have continued mining black sand
or magnetite concentrate in the northern part of the country. In the
Philippines, under RA 7942 or the Philippine Mining Act of 1995, only (2)
percent of the value of mined ore as the countrys proceed from the
mining development enterprises
6. MONEY
People are not legally allowed to carry money more than certain amount
in or out of the country. Carrying more than $10,000 undeclared in and
out of the USA is a punishable offense.

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7. MOBILES
China is the biggest supplier of smuggled mobile phones and can be found
everywhere in the world and in the Philippines.

8. CIGARETTES
Smugglers will often buy cigarettes from places from place with really low
taxes and the smuggled those and resell them in places with high taxes.
Cigarettes is the most smuggled products in Canada and other parts of
the world.
9. OIL
The fuel, diesel, and oil can sell at a very higher price just across the
border and the experts say that oil smuggling is more profitable than
human and drug trafficking and one of the high value of goods in the
market.

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Economic
Crimes
Researched by:
Catherine Ann C. De Lumin
3-C2